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New Archie Graphic Novel Explores Rich Inner Life Of Jughead

NEW YORK—Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. released a new Archie Comics graphic novel Tuesday, Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown, an examination of the complex inner workings of longtime Archie compatriot Forsythe “Jughead” Jones. “Readers will be fascinated by Forsythe’s agonizing realization that his love of food was really just a substitute for loving himself, something he deems impossible due to his guilt over the premature death of his baby sister, Forsythia, and the predatory sexual overtures he suffers at the hands of Mr. Flutesnoot,” author and cartoonist Adrian Tomine said. “The poignancy is further emphasized by the glimpses of Forsythe’s future, as a divorced, self-doubting, alcoholic psychiatrist with an uncontrollable weight problem.” A Knopf spokesman rejected allegations that the novel is nothing more than an apologia for the character’s misogyny, saying that readers “will find the truth is rather more complicated.”